Samuel Sherman

6. Samuel Sherman b: Bef. January 11, 1572/73 in Dedham d: 1615 in Ardleigh, co Essex, ENG + Philippa Ward  m: Bef. 1599

• parents: 5. Henry "the elder" Sherman  b: Abt. 1547 in of Dedham d: Abt. August 28, 1610 in Dedham + Susan Lawrance m: June 14, 1568 in Moze, co Essex, ENG d: September 1610 in Dedham

Source: http://www.soysite.com/SOYdescendants/index.html

Samuel Sherman is George W. Bush's 11th Great Grandfather.

Samuel SHERMAN

Phillipa WARD

Husband: Samuel3 SHERMAN

Birth: 1573, Dedham, ESS

Death: 1615, Dedham, ESS

Father: Henry2 SHERMAN — Henry1

Mother: Susan HILLS

Marriage:

Wife: Phillippa / Philippa WARD

Children — born in Dedham, ESS:

1. Mary SHERMAN, b. 2 Oct 1599

2. Samuel SHERMAN, b. 20 Oct 1601; d. Boston, Suffolk Co., MA

3. Henry SHERMAN, b. 20 Oct 1601; died young

4. Henry SHERMAN, b. 23 Jun 1603

5. Martha SHERMAN, b. 24 Jan 1604

6. Sarah SHERMAN, b. 11 Feb 1606; d. 12 Dec 1612

7. Philip SHERMAN, b. 5 Feb 1609/10

Baptized January 11, 1573 ____________________________________________________________________________ From Family Tree Maker amuel SHERMAN (son of Henry SHERMAN and Susan LAWRENCE)282 was born 1573 in Dedham, Essex, England282, and died 1615 in Dedham, Essex, England282. He married Philippa WARD in England282, daughter of Lancelot WARD.

Notes for Samuel SHERMAN: Thanks to Mel Sherman for providing this background history; GSH.

The last of our line to be a Clothier and the last to live out his life in England, was born in Dedham in 1573 and was baptized in the parish church on January 11th. In about 1597 he married Philippa Ward and they had four sons and three daughters, at least two whom died young. The three sons who lived to maturity were Samuel, Henry, and our ancestor, Philip. Samuel and Philippa are believed to have lived for a time at Dedham, but the exact location of their home is not known though a number of houses were still standing in the village in the early 1900's belonged to the Sherman family. However, they spent a considerable part of their lives at Ardleigh, one of Samuel's properties near Dedham, and there he died when he was still in his early forties.

Samuel's will, probated on March 2, 1616, mentions three sons and his daughters, Mary and Martha. At the time of their father's death his eldest son, Samuel, was only fourteen, and his youngest, Philip, only five so they are obviously unable to carry on their father's business. Eventually all three sons decided to leave England and come to America, Philip being the first to arrive in 1632-3.

Why they made this decision, we do not know for sure, but we can consider the factors -- -- economic, political, and religious -- -- which may have impelled a love so important to us descendants of Philip, who are now spread across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In time England fared no better when it came to wars, religious or otherwise. And whatever the Sherman families thought that they were escaping in German seemed to eventually follow their descendants to England. The 100 Year War between England and France began in about 1337. One of the causes of the war was that France opposed English possessions in France. But the actual cause of the fighting began when the French King Philip VI put a stop to the trade of wool between England and France. This of course, would have put the Shermans at the very center of the issue. It should be noted that in the middle of the war in 1548 the Black Plague ran rampant inn Europe, and thousands of people died.

While plagues and wars went on indefinitely in many European areas, some spent their time pondering, discovering, and exploring new land. America was discovered. Later, in about 1618, the long 30 Year War in Europe between Protestants and Catholics began. While the majority of the war was fought in France, German, and Sweden, England was affected as well. Although Protestantism began to rise in England, King James I continued to hold on to teaching and ideals of Roman Catholicism. The Protestants as strongly held on to their religious beliefs. One group, the Puritans, tried to purify the church from within and strip it of any feature that reflected Rome or the Pope. In 1562 a law passed that prohibited Protestants from meeting on their own. Indeed, it was considered treason. Consequently, as many people become more and more disenchanted, including Protestant Shermans, they began to yearn for religious and intellectual freedom. Thus, they began to leave for the new country called America.

After sailing for sixty-six days the first group of pilgrim immigrants reached what became the colony of Plymouth, MA on November 21, 1620.

Sons Samuel and Philip went to America and were admitted freemen to Roxbury, Mass 1632/33.

Died in Ardleigh, Essex, England

The Plague Returns To London: Some 70,000 dead! (London,1666) In an epidemic that has ravaged London for over a year, the plague leaves in its wake, by some accounts, close to 70,000 (perhaps as many as 75,000) dead out of a population of about 460,000. It is thought that the disastrous London Fire led to a quelling of the disease, for deaths attributed to the dread disease have fallen dramatically since its occurrence. The disease which starts with tell tale spots upon one's thigh signal, to most, a terrible and painful death knell. There is no known cure for the disease. History tells us that in the fourteenth century, The Black Death killed about one-third of the population of Europe, (others reckon it closer to one-fourth) or 24-25 million people In four years--about twenty-five to thirty-seven percent of Europe's population. There is no known cure for the disease.

Though we now know that bubonic plague (invades the lymph nodes and In pneumonic invades the lungs) is caused most frequently from the bite of a rat flea, occasionally through contact with infectious tissues or exudates, and rarely through respiratory droplets, this was unknown at the time.

Facts from the 1500's

Next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.... Here are some facts about the1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children--last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it--hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

Houses had thatched roofs--thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the dogs, cats and other small animals (mice rats, and bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof--hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could really mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence the saying "dirt poor."

The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entry way--hence, a "thresh hold."

They cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. sometimes the stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while --hence the rhyme, "peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold,peas porridge in the pot nine days old."

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man "could bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Most people did not have pewter plates, but had trenchers, a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Often trenchers were made from stale paysan bread which was so old and hard that they could use them for quite some time. Trenchers were never washed and a lot of times worms and mold got into the wood and old bread. After eating off wormy moldy trenchers, one would get "trench mouth."

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up-hence the custom of holding a "wake."

England is old and small and they started out running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to havescratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer".

More About Samuel SHERMAN: Baptism: 11 Jan 1572/73282 Occupation: Clothier-.282

More About Samuel SHERMAN and Philippa WARD: Marriage: England.282

Children of Samuel SHERMAN and Philippa WARD are: +Philip SHERMAN, b. Abt. 05 Feb 1609/10, Dedham, Co, Essex, England282, d. Mar 1686/87, Portsmouth, Newport, RI282.

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GEDCOM Note

Category: Dedham, Essex Category: Tendring, Essex

Biography

The Sherman family is of record as far back as the thirteenth century,in which time was born and flourished one (1) Thomas Sherman, of Dedham, England; (2) John; (3) Thomas, (4) Henry; (5) Henry; (6) Samuel; (7) Philip; (8) Edmund; (9) David; (10) John; (11) Job; (12) John; (13) Solomon Sherman.
First in America was (7) Philip; born in Dedham, England, in 1610. Arrived 1632-1633, settling in Roxbury, Massachusetts. There he married Sarah Odding. In 1634, banished from Massachusetts, he settled in RhodeIsland. Edmund (8), son of Philip, settled in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. His wife’s name was Mary.

David (9), son of Edmund, married Abigail Hathaway. John (10), son of David, of Rochester, Massachusetts, married Ruth Allen.

Birth

:: 11 JAN 1573 Dedham, Essex, England

Christening

:: 11 Jan 1572/3 Dedham, Essex, England

Marriage

:: ABT 1597 England :: ABT 1599 England :: 1597 ::: Wife: Ward-9780|Philippa Ward

Death

:: 1615 Ardleigh, England
:: 1644 (#EVRP|Early Vital Records of Poland, ME)

Sources

• The Ancestry of Nathan Lewis Harrison Revisited Nineteen Years Later. By Keith Harrison. Page 307. GoogleBooks
• Mumford, James Gregory. Space:New England Mumfords|Mumford Memoirs, Being the Story of the New England Mumfords (Merrymount Press, Boston, 1900) Page 27* Personal Individual Genealogy: Tucker Family Genealogy. Does not cite sources.
• Rev. Henry B. Sherman (pub. aft. 1870)* Ancestry Member Trees: Tree #1, Tree #2. User submitted. Online publication: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc. * Michael Johnson Wood. "The Earliest Shermans of Dedham Essex." NewEngland Historical and Genealogical Register. NEGHR, v. 167, Jan 2013; Whole Number 665, p. 44.* Early Vital Records of Poland, ME, Boston, MA : New England Historical and Genealogical Society, n.d. [vols. 1-148 on compact discs in DMVD library.]* Space:Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts|Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts (J. H. Beers & Co., 1912) Pages 468, 1170, 1358, 1519, 1553, 1571,1720, 1756

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Samuel Sherman
BIRTH 11 Jan 1573
Dedham, Colchester Borough, Essex, England
DEATH 1616 (aged 42–43)
Dedham, Colchester Borough, Essex, England
BURIAL
St. Mary the Virgin Churchyard
Dedham, Colchester Borough, Essex, England
MEMORIAL ID 130967767